Brain Activity

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One of the central challenges in modern neuroscience is recording the exchange of information between different regions of the brain. (Photo: ANI)

New method found to detect neural activity centre in brain

Researchers develop new method to detect light in brain.

20 Nov 2019 12:33 PM

One of the most fascinating yields of this research, Lewis said, was that they can tell if a person is sleeping simply by examining a little bit of CSF on a brain scan. (Photo: ANI)

How sleep helps brain to function

The cerebrospinal fluid is closely tied with blood flow and brain activity.

02 Nov 2019 1:43 PM

During sleep, the brain even reactivates memory traces that it can no longer remember later on. (Photo: Pixabay)

Here’s what your brain learns during sleep

Team recorded the brain activity of epilepsy patients who had electrodes implanted into their brain for the purpose of surgical planning.

06 Oct 2018 11:13 AM

'Sleep spindles' key to boosting memory: study

The findings may help to explain how that process may go wrong in people with learning difficulties.

11 Mar 2018 3:01 PM

Closer the relationship, the more alike the neural patterns in parts of the brain governing emotional response, high-level reasoning, and the capacity to focus one's attention. (Photo: Pixabay)

Best friends' brains show similar neural activity patterns

Study shows close friends have comparable neural responses to life experiences.

31 Jan 2018 8:36 AM

Men are just as likely as women to identify as sapiosexual (Photo: Pixabay)

Women use their mind more during sexual arousal as compared to men

Researchers learnt that genital arousal was more strongly linked with brain activity among women than men.

17 Jan 2018 5:03 PM

These findings help reinforce a strategy whereby individuals may be able to improve their emotional functioning (Photo: AFP)

Anxiety can be tackled by stimulating brain activity

People may also be more likely to benefit from strategies that boost the brain's dorsolateral prefrontal activity.

19 Nov 2017 7:11 PM

While studies have found heavy drinking by alcoholics altered brain activity, there is also evidence that binging can change a teenager's brain too. (Photo: Pixabay)

Drinking too much ups risk of cancer in students

Study finds that having five or more beers for men, or four for women, within two hours leads to distinctive changes in brain activity.

15 Sep 2017 2:18 PM

Our eye muscles are quite sluggish and imprecise, so the brain needs to constantly adapt its motor signals (Photo: AFP)

Blinking stabilises vision by enhancing brain function

The brain gauges the difference in what we see before and after a blink, and commands the eye muscles to make the needed corrections.

22 Jan 2017 11:04 AM

The researchers caution that maintaining high levels of fitness through physical activity will not entirely eliminate or cure age (Photo: AFP)

Fitter older adults have better brain activity

Difficulty remembering new information represents one of the most common complaints in aging and decreased memory performance.

15 Jan 2017 3:15 PM

The method uses previously experienced high confidence incidents to reoccur so that the person has a confidence boost. (Photo: Pixabay)

Manipulating brain activity can boost confidence

Recent advances in neuroscience have highlighted the plasticity of the brain, indicating it is malleable even later in life

16 Dec 2016 9:07 PM

Such information processing is too complicated for a computer (Photo: AFP)

Study decodes working of a musician's brain

Musical styles and strengths vary dramatically: Some musicians are better at sight reading music, while others are better at playing it.

30 Nov 2016 5:43 PM

Younger participants have only a few large synchronous groups (Photo: AFP)

Ageing causes brain activity to lose cohesion

Whether a person uses memory or rests, the number of synchronous groups of connections within one brain is consistent for that person.

28 Nov 2016 9:08 AM

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